Gallery: Huge Paintings Created With Just Brain Waves

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    Chinese artist Jody Xiong, along with the global paint and art supplies brand Winsor & Newton joined forces to create Mind Art, a crowdsourced performance painting piece.
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    For Mind Art, 16 different disabled people splatter paint a canvas using only signals from their brains.
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    Each of the painters picked colors, and then balloons—rigged with detonators—were filled with those paints.
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    The balloons were lowered down into a space boxed off by four canvases.
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    Participants wore NeuroSky headsets that react to brain activity. Once they concentrated, the balloons burst, leaving an unpredictable burst of paint and color.
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